How we scored it
Coconut, palm and sunflower acyl chains + glutamic acid (fermentation) + sodium; all natural, amide bond adds no foreign atoms; 1.0.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.
Where it comes from
Dominant route: fatty acid chlorides are condensed with fermentation-derived glutamic acid under alkaline conditions; chloride leaves as sodium chloride. No petrochemical fragment is retained.
In plain English
A cleansing ingredient made by joining fatty acids from coconut, palm and sunflower oils to glutamic acid, an amino acid made by fermentation. It helps products foam, clean and mix oil with water.
CosIng definition: Sodium Cocoyl/Palmoyl/Sunfloweroyl Glutamate is the sodium salt of the product formed by the reaction of Glutamic Acid with a mixture of Coconut Acid, Palm Acid and Sunflower Seed Acid
References
- 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
- 2SODIUM COCOYL/PALMOYL/SUNFLOWEROYL GLUTAMATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3SODIUM COCOYL/PALMOYL/SUNFLOWEROYL GLUTAMATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SODIUM%20COCOYL/PALMOYL/SUNFLOWEROYL%20GLUTAMATE